Archaeologists have discovered more than 3,000 historical sites and monuments in the New Forest thanks to Lidar (Light Detecting and Ranging). The technique beams harmless lasers into the ground to build a 3D map, revealing the hidden history of the New Forest including a Roman road and prehistoric pits and mounds.
The discoveries have been made thanks to the Verderers of the New Forest Higher Level Stewardship Scheme. The 10 year project is a partnership between the Verderers, the Forestry Commission and the New Forest National Park Authority, to protect and enhance internationally-important landscapes in the Forest.
Find out more at www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/heritagemapping

published:10 Jun 2015

views:36336

Welcome to Aspects of Archaeology. In this series we take a closer look at different aspects of the world of archaeology.
Today we take a look at LiDar.
Special thanks for use of imagery and video footage to:
Ed Schipul: Flickr Account CC 3.0License
landskippy: Flickr Account CC 3.0 License
Fylkestinget i Nord-Trøndelag: Flickr account CC 3.0 License
Mike Ball: Ocean Pin Sculpture: CC 3.0 License
and Youtube account 'BK' - Thanks again!

Archaeology at WorkLooking for and Uncovering the Past
Archaeology at Work is a series of films that introduces the methods and the equipment used by archaeologists today. The first two parts deal with the discovery and excavation of sites. Looking for the Past examines archaeological methods for finding sites in the countryside without digging for them. It shows and explains such techniques as aerial photography, looking at documents, surveying earthworks, fieldwalking and geophysical techniques such as magnatometer and resistivity surveys. In the final section we see a team of archaeologists working on a fieldwork survey of a whole landscape. Uncovering the Past examines the work of archaeologists on two rescue excavations.
We see the whole sequence; removing the soil, uncovering features, recording them, dealing with the finds and drawing the evidence together to make interpretations.
The first section looks at the excavations of an AngloSaxon village in North Yorkshire. We see how the archaeologists piece together the evidence of how the community lived and worked in that place 1500 years ago. In the second half we look at a rescue excavation in the city of Worcester. We see the complications of excavating a site that has been continuously occupied for over two thousand years. We see that archaeology is all about finding people.

published:06 Nov 2013

views:22698

In 2016 the FARES Foundation and the Mirador BasinProject with help from National Geographic and some other private donors finished our LIDAR mapping of the majority of the Mirador Basin. To get the maximum image penetration we had to wait till the majority of leaves had fallen off of the trees. This isn't easy due to the 5 different forest zones in the basin. There is only one week out of the year where we have ideal conditions to fly the airplane for best results. The cost of this technology, which is done through a special outfitted aircraft is $350.00 per square kilometer, or approximately $380,000 for 1100 sq kilometers of the west, east, and south of El Mirador, Nakbe, and Tintal. We invite you to reach out and get involved by visiting our FARES Facebook page and making a donation. We also encourage you to visit and see for yourself these amazing discoveries.

published:21 Jan 2017

views:1456

published:16 Oct 2014

views:7130

This video is a presentation by Dr Michel Assenbaum, CEO of L'AvionJaune.
Michel presents an acquisition made using the YellowScan Mapper in the Ardennes forest in France, on an old battlefield of World War I. Under the vegetation, the LiDAR is able to unveil trenches, embankments, former roads or buildings, as well as explosion marks.
L'Avion Jaune is a french company that has provided operational aerial imagery services since 2005. The principal sectors that take advantage of their expertise in very high-resolution and multispectral products are agronomy, precision agriculture, environmental research and infrastructure management.
YellowScan develops tools for UAV Mapping. With our latest system, the Surveyor LiDAR Scanning system adapted for UAV surveying, you can gather in a few minutes a precise 3D image of your forest and its topography to make out hidden vestiges.

published:07 Nov 2016

views:925

http://www.undergroundworldnews.com
The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) in western Bolivia is still revealing secrets thousands of years after its peak as capital of an empire, and home to one of the most important civilizations prior to the Inca. Archaeologists from the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center have discovered an underground pyramid at the site using ground-penetrating radar.
According to Fox News Latino, the Bolivian government has announced excavations are set to begin this summer on the new find at the Kantatallita area of Tiahuanaco, 71 kilometers (44 miles) west of La Paz.
Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers also have reportedly found “underground anomalies” which they suspect might be monoliths, but further analysis will be carried out before reaching official conclusions.
Read more: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/archaeologists-find-underground-pyramid-tiahuanaco-bolivia-020278#ixzz3W1FoG31F

published:01 Apr 2015

views:35145

"Lidar" is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser and analyzing the reflected light. Although thought by some to be an acronym of Light Detection And Ranging, the term lidar was actually created as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar".
Lidar is popularly used as a technology to make high-resolution maps, with applications in geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, remote sensing, atmospheric physics,
airborne laser swath mapping , laser altimetry, and contour mapping.
Lidar originated in the early 1960s, shortly after the invention of the laser, and combined laser-focused imaging with radar's ability to calculate distances by measuring the time for a signal to return. Its first applications came in meteorology, where the National Center for Atmospheric Research used it to measure clouds. The general public became aware of the accuracy and usefulness of lidar systems in 1971 during the Apollo 15 mission, when astronauts used a laser altimeter to map the surface of the moon.
Although some sources treat the word "lidar" as an acronym, the term originated as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar". The first published mention of lidar, in 1963, makes this clear: "Eventually the laser may provide an extremely sensitive detector of particular wavelengths from distant objects. Meanwhile, it is being used to study the moon by 'lidar' ..." The "Oxford English Dictionary" supports this etymology.
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published:04 Sep 2015

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LIDAR sends out a million laser points to create a digital outline of the land's surface. Scientists are using these high-tech renderings to uncover the secrets of Angkor Wat and the original metropolis that once surrounded it.
From: ANGKOR REVEALED: The HiddenMegacityhttp://bit.ly/1sh8hBd

published:12 Dec 2014

views:274855

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
FranciscoGoncalves
PT McElhanney Indonesia
Over the past almost 40 years, use of liDAR sensors and data has migrated from the domain of research and development into the general marketplace primarily as a means of rapidly generating dense, accurate, digital models of the topography and vertical structure. LiDAR elevation data is ideally suited for mapping extensive areas where very high accuracy elevation and information data is required rapidly and where vegetation density is a factor.
Market sectors such as infrastructure, land management and development, natural resource management companies, environmental, energy, agribusiness, urban development, coastal zone management, water resource management, archaeology and conservation institutions embraced liDAR as the most costs cost effective and accurate technology offering the data and information required for the effective management of their project areas. The purpose of my presentation is to show you how we at PTMI, make this technology work and fulfill your requirements.

History and etymology

Lidar originated in the early 1960s, shortly after the invention of the laser, and combined laser-focused imaging with radar's ability to calculate distances by measuring the time for a signal to return. Its first applications came in meteorology, where the National Center for Atmospheric Research used it to measure clouds. The general public became aware of the accuracy and usefulness of lidar systems in 1971 during the Apollo 15 mission, when astronauts used a laser altimeter to map the surface of the moon.

South Downs

The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about 260 square miles (670km2) across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east. It is bounded on its northern side by a steep escarpment, from whose crest there are extensive views northwards across the Weald. The South Downs National Park forms a much larger area than the chalk range of the South Downs and includes large parts of the Weald.

The South Downs are characterised by rolling chalk downland with close-cropped turf and dry valleys, and are recognised as one of the most important chalk landscapes in England. The range is one of the four main areas of chalkdownland in southern England.

The South Downs are relatively unpopulated compared to South East England as a whole, although in Sussex there has been large-scale urban encroachment onto the chalk downland by major seaside resorts, including most notably Brighton and Hove.

The name also refers to the New Forest National Park which has similar boundaries. Additionally the New Forest local government district is a subdivision of Hampshire which covers most of the Forest and some nearby areas, although it is no longer the planning authority for the National Park itself.
There are many villages dotted around the area, and several small towns in the Forest and around its edges.

Prehistory

Like much of England, the site of the New Forest was once deciduous woodland, recolonised by birch and eventually beech and oak after the withdrawal of the ice sheets starting around 12,000 years ago. Some areas were cleared for cultivation from the Bronze Age onwards; the poor quality of the soil in the New Forest meant that the cleared areas turned into heathland "waste", which may have been used even then as grazing land for horses. There was still a significant amount of woodland in this part of Britain, but this was gradually reduced, particularly towards the end of the Middle Iron Age around 250–100 BC, and most importantly the 12th and 13th centuries, and of this essentially all that remains today is the New Forest.

Mirador Basin

The Mirador Basin is a geological depression found in the remote rainforest of the northern department of Petén, Guatemala. Mirador Basin consists of two true basins, consisting of shallowly sloping terrain dominated by low-lying swamps called bajos; one draining into the San Pedro River and the other into the Candelaria River. The basin is surrounded by rugged karsticlimestone hills on the east and south, forming a triangular geographical "trough" covering more than 2,169 square kilometres (837sqmi).

During the past two decades, the region has been the object of archaeological investigations at the large Middle and Late Preclassic sites of El Mirador, Nakbe, El Tintal, Wakna, the recently discovered sites of Xulnal and El Pesquero, and numerous smaller settlements, dating mostly to the Classic period, such as La Florida, Maaxte, Zacatal, Chan Kan, Tsab Kan, Pedernal, Isla, La Muerta, and La Muralla. Dozens of additional sites are dispersed within the Basin, including several extremely large ones such as Naachtun in the northeast corner which is currently under investigation by a team from the University of Calgary in Canada (Director: Kathryn Reese-Taylor). The primary settlement of the major sites in the basin dates to the Middle Preclassic (ca. 1000 BCE - 350 BCE) and Late Preclassic periods (ca. 350 BCE - CE 150), with relatively little overburden from the large scale constructions and extensive settlements that characterized the Classic periods (CE 250-900) of Lowland Maya civilization.

Lost City

Lost City is a 2004 novel by Clive Cussler. It was printed by Penguin publishers ISBN 0-7181-4735-9.

It tells of Kurt Austin's dealings with the Fauchard family, which has dominated the weapons industry for several thousand years, their secret past, the monsters they have created, and the plague they have unleashed on the worlds oceans, all in a quest for immortality.

Plot summary

The Story begins with a flashback to August 1914, where Jules Fauchard is flying his Morane-Saulnier N, mono-winged aircraft. Fauchard is heading to meet the pope's emissary in Switzerland but as he is coming to the border and the French Alps, a squad of six Aviatik biplanes find him. The planes attack Fauchard and though he destroys four planes he is eventually shot down and killed. His plane lands in a glacial river and Fauchard along with his helmet and strong box are buried in a glacier.

Cut to the present day in the Scottish Orkney Islands. A reality television show is being filmed when that evening a group of animals attack the crew and cast. Everyone is killed except for Jodie Michaelson; the only reason she is not killed is because as she was running from the creatures she fell into a deep crevace in the rocks and the animals lost her scent.

Hidden History - Lidar 3D Mapping

Archaeologists have discovered more than 3,000 historical sites and monuments in the New Forest thanks to Lidar (Light Detecting and Ranging). The technique beams harmless lasers into the ground to build a 3D map, revealing the hidden history of the New Forest including a Roman road and prehistoric pits and mounds.
The discoveries have been made thanks to the Verderers of the New Forest Higher Level Stewardship Scheme. The 10 year project is a partnership between the Verderers, the Forestry Commission and the New Forest National Park Authority, to protect and enhance internationally-important landscapes in the Forest.
Find out more at www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/heritagemapping

10:54

Aspects of Archaeology: LiDar

Aspects of Archaeology: LiDar

Aspects of Archaeology: LiDar

Welcome to Aspects of Archaeology. In this series we take a closer look at different aspects of the world of archaeology.
Today we take a look at LiDar.
Special thanks for use of imagery and video footage to:
Ed Schipul: Flickr Account CC 3.0License
landskippy: Flickr Account CC 3.0 License
Fylkestinget i Nord-Trøndelag: Flickr account CC 3.0 License
Mike Ball: Ocean Pin Sculpture: CC 3.0 License
and Youtube account 'BK' - Thanks again!

Archaeology at work

Archaeology at WorkLooking for and Uncovering the Past
Archaeology at Work is a series of films that introduces the methods and the equipment used by archaeologists today. The first two parts deal with the discovery and excavation of sites. Looking for the Past examines archaeological methods for finding sites in the countryside without digging for them. It shows and explains such techniques as aerial photography, looking at documents, surveying earthworks, fieldwalking and geophysical techniques such as magnatometer and resistivity surveys. In the final section we see a team of archaeologists working on a fieldwork survey of a whole landscape. Uncovering the Past examines the work of archaeologists on two rescue excavations.
We see the whole sequence; removing the soil, uncovering features, recording them, dealing with the finds and drawing the evidence together to make interpretations.
The first section looks at the excavations of an AngloSaxon village in North Yorkshire. We see how the archaeologists piece together the evidence of how the community lived and worked in that place 1500 years ago. In the second half we look at a rescue excavation in the city of Worcester. We see the complications of excavating a site that has been continuously occupied for over two thousand years. We see that archaeology is all about finding people.

4:23

New Maya Discoveries by Dr. Richard Hansen using LiDAR with the Mirador Basin

New Maya Discoveries by Dr. Richard Hansen using LiDAR with the Mirador Basin

New Maya Discoveries by Dr. Richard Hansen using LiDAR with the Mirador Basin

In 2016 the FARES Foundation and the Mirador BasinProject with help from National Geographic and some other private donors finished our LIDAR mapping of the majority of the Mirador Basin. To get the maximum image penetration we had to wait till the majority of leaves had fallen off of the trees. This isn't easy due to the 5 different forest zones in the basin. There is only one week out of the year where we have ideal conditions to fly the airplane for best results. The cost of this technology, which is done through a special outfitted aircraft is $350.00 per square kilometer, or approximately $380,000 for 1100 sq kilometers of the west, east, and south of El Mirador, Nakbe, and Tintal. We invite you to reach out and get involved by visiting our FARES Facebook page and making a donation. We also encourage you to visit and see for yourself these amazing discoveries.

This video is a presentation by Dr Michel Assenbaum, CEO of L'AvionJaune.
Michel presents an acquisition made using the YellowScan Mapper in the Ardennes forest in France, on an old battlefield of World War I. Under the vegetation, the LiDAR is able to unveil trenches, embankments, former roads or buildings, as well as explosion marks.
L'Avion Jaune is a french company that has provided operational aerial imagery services since 2005. The principal sectors that take advantage of their expertise in very high-resolution and multispectral products are agronomy, precision agriculture, environmental research and infrastructure management.
YellowScan develops tools for UAV Mapping. With our latest system, the Surveyor LiDAR Scanning system adapted for UAV surveying, you can gather in a few minutes a precise 3D image of your forest and its topography to make out hidden vestiges.

4:01

WOW! Underground Pyramid Discovered by Archaeologists In Bolivia

WOW! Underground Pyramid Discovered by Archaeologists In Bolivia

WOW! Underground Pyramid Discovered by Archaeologists In Bolivia

http://www.undergroundworldnews.com
The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) in western Bolivia is still revealing secrets thousands of years after its peak as capital of an empire, and home to one of the most important civilizations prior to the Inca. Archaeologists from the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center have discovered an underground pyramid at the site using ground-penetrating radar.
According to Fox News Latino, the Bolivian government has announced excavations are set to begin this summer on the new find at the Kantatallita area of Tiahuanaco, 71 kilometers (44 miles) west of La Paz.
Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers also have reportedly found “underground anomalies” which they suspect might be monoliths, but further analysis will be carried out before reaching official conclusions.
Read more: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/archaeologists-find-underground-pyramid-tiahuanaco-bolivia-020278#ixzz3W1FoG31F

1:58

Lidar - Video Learning - WizScience.com

Lidar - Video Learning - WizScience.com

Lidar - Video Learning - WizScience.com

"Lidar" is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser and analyzing the reflected light. Although thought by some to be an acronym of Light Detection And Ranging, the term lidar was actually created as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar".
Lidar is popularly used as a technology to make high-resolution maps, with applications in geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, remote sensing, atmospheric physics,
airborne laser swath mapping , laser altimetry, and contour mapping.
Lidar originated in the early 1960s, shortly after the invention of the laser, and combined laser-focused imaging with radar's ability to calculate distances by measuring the time for a signal to return. Its first applications came in meteorology, where the National Center for Atmospheric Research used it to measure clouds. The general public became aware of the accuracy and usefulness of lidar systems in 1971 during the Apollo 15 mission, when astronauts used a laser altimeter to map the surface of the moon.
Although some sources treat the word "lidar" as an acronym, the term originated as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar". The first published mention of lidar, in 1963, makes this clear: "Eventually the laser may provide an extremely sensitive detector of particular wavelengths from distant objects. Meanwhile, it is being used to study the moon by 'lidar' ..." The "Oxford English Dictionary" supports this etymology.
Wiz Science™ is "the" learning channel for children and all ages.
SUBSCRIBE TODAYDisclaimer: This video is for your information only. The author or publisher does not guarantee the accuracy of the content presented in this video. USE AT YOUR OWNRISK.
Background Music:
"The PlaceInside" by Silent Partner (royalty-free) from YouTube AudioLibrary.
This video uses material/images from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar, which is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . This video is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . To reuse/adapt the content in your own work, you must comply with the license terms.

1:10

How LIDAR Scans Reveal Angkor's Hidden City

How LIDAR Scans Reveal Angkor's Hidden City

How LIDAR Scans Reveal Angkor's Hidden City

LIDAR sends out a million laser points to create a digital outline of the land's surface. Scientists are using these high-tech renderings to uncover the secrets of Angkor Wat and the original metropolis that once surrounded it.
From: ANGKOR REVEALED: The HiddenMegacityhttp://bit.ly/1sh8hBd

34:29

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
FranciscoGoncalves
PT McElhanney Indonesia
Over the past almost 40 years, use of liDAR sensors and data has migrated from the domain of research and development into the general marketplace primarily as a means of rapidly generating dense, accurate, digital models of the topography and vertical structure. LiDAR elevation data is ideally suited for mapping extensive areas where very high accuracy elevation and information data is required rapidly and where vegetation density is a factor.
Market sectors such as infrastructure, land management and development, natural resource management companies, environmental, energy, agribusiness, urban development, coastal zone management, water resource management, archaeology and conservation institutions embraced liDAR as the most costs cost effective and accurate technology offering the data and information required for the effective management of their project areas. The purpose of my presentation is to show you how we at PTMI, make this technology work and fulfill your requirements.

2:32

A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape

A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape

A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape

This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a 'solid' computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method.
Prehistoric burial mounds (barrows), the great Cursus (a 2km Neolithic monument), the Bronze AgeAvenue which links Stonehenge to the River Avon, and other henges such as Woodhenge and Durrington Walls are all clearly visible.
It is possibly the first time that this data has been shown in this way, at 1:1 with no reduction of data quality to produce a perspective animation.
To find out more technical information about the survey, visit the Stonehenge LIDAR section of the English Heritage website: http://english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.00100200300400a001001

2:12

Scientists Are Using Lasers To Uncover Lost Cities

Scientists Are Using Lasers To Uncover Lost Cities

Scientists Are Using Lasers To Uncover Lost Cities

Uncovering lost, ancient cities can take quite some time, but now scientists are speeding up the process using lasers! JoinJulian as he discusses a new method to dig up the past.
Follow Julian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jhug00
Read More:
Scientists Use Lasers To DiscoverAncientLost Cityhttp://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-lasers-are-helping-us-unlock-secrets-ancient-civilizations
"Vegetation is probably the world's best secret keeper. It's kept some of the world's most famous archeological sites hidden from our eyes for centuries."
Lidar archaeology shines a light on hidden sites
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120827-the-laser-archaeologists
"For the best part of 25 years, archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase slogged through the thick undergrowth in the west of Belize in search of an ancient city whose details had been lost to the passage of time and the decay of the jungle."
Angkor Wat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat#Angkor_Wat_today
King Tut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun#SignificanceWatch More:
What Did Ancient WineTaste Like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7cukSVCC-w
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU72TwiczA0
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2:40

Drones used for Archaeology Mapping

Drones used for Archaeology Mapping

Drones used for Archaeology Mapping

GIS Manager and Archaeologist, William Hayden, describes the proper usage of drones in archaeology.

21:42

Robin Woywitka - LiDAR use at the Archaeological Survey

Robin Woywitka - LiDAR use at the Archaeological Survey

Robin Woywitka - LiDAR use at the Archaeological Survey

Robin Woywitka delivered a presentation on how LiDAR data is being used to help the work of the Archaeological Survey in Alberta. The province has over 30,000 sites covering the past 12,000 years, and a regulatory framework in place to protect sensitive areas. Using LiDAR data as part of the Historic Resources Impact Assessment process has been successful. LiDAR is used for terrian visualization, some direct site detection adn modelling areas of archaeological sensitivity. Staff at the Archaeological Survey are working on digital terrain analysis as a means of identifying potential sites.
Robin Woywitka works with the Archaeological Survey, Historic Resources ManagementBranch, Alberta Culture and Community Services.

27:28

Interactive approaches to landscape modelling using Lidar data

Interactive approaches to landscape modelling using Lidar data

Interactive approaches to landscape modelling using Lidar data

Steve Malone, Project Manager, Trent & Peak Archaeology
The use of LiDAR derived DigitalElevationModels is becoming commonplace in the study of ancient landscapes. These DEMs offer the opportunity to study landscape, archaeology and topography at a high resolution which no other survey data source can deliver over such wide areas. However, in common with other 3D datasets they present a paradox, in that the dimensionality that makes them so powerful has to be discarded in the production and dissemination of 2D (or 2½D) derived products and final figures. The utility of such output depends in large degree on the skills of the processor/illustrator (and toolkits for the production of such imagery will be discussed), but increasing availability of 3D functionality within such as the PDF format and the development of interactive WebGL approaches are allowing the potential of these datasets to be realised in greater degree. This paper will study some methods of presentation/visualisation of surface models and explore the potential for interactive modelling.

8:10

Archaeology of Ashdown Forest

Archaeology of Ashdown Forest

Archaeology of Ashdown Forest

This film describes how LiDar has been used to discover more about the history and archaeology of Ashdown Forest in East Sussex.

1:43:41

Archaeology from the Sky - Chris Fisher and Steve Leisz

Archaeology from the Sky - Chris Fisher and Steve Leisz

Archaeology from the Sky - Chris Fisher and Steve Leisz

Meet theCSU explorers who are using aircraft packed with laser technology to reveal lost cities and the forgotten past. Drawing on examples of their work from Mexico and Honduras CSU researchers ChristopherFisher and Stephen Leisz who are discussing how new applications of remote sensing, such as LiDAR technology, are revolutionizing the field of archaeology.
Partnering with local companies, non-profit organizations, and international agencies these CSU scientists are developing innovative ways to record cultural and natural heritage in areas long left unexplored due to the dense forests and complicated terrain of the areas where the sites are located; conditions which have long hindered on the ground exploration.
Their presentation illustrates what the technologies are, how they are used, what has recently been learned from the application of these technologies, and the technologies' future potential, as well as discusses controversies regarding the funding of such exploration.

21:02

LIDAR and archaeology: The importance of ground point classification

LIDAR and archaeology: The importance of ground point classification

LIDAR and archaeology: The importance of ground point classification

Gudrun Norstedt gives some preliminary results from her study. The audio will be better after about 8 minutes.

Hidden History - Lidar 3D Mapping

Archaeologists have discovered more than 3,000 historical sites and monuments in the New Forest thanks to Lidar (Light Detecting and Ranging). The technique beams harmless lasers into the ground to build a 3D map, revealing the hidden history of the New Forest including a Roman road and prehistoric pits and mounds.
The discoveries have been made thanks to the Verderers of the New Forest Higher Level Stewardship Scheme. The 10 year project is a partnership between the Verderers, the Forestry Commission and the New Forest National Park Authority, to protect and enhance internationally-important landscapes in the Forest.
Find out more at www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/heritagemapping

published: 10 Jun 2015

Aspects of Archaeology: LiDar

Welcome to Aspects of Archaeology. In this series we take a closer look at different aspects of the world of archaeology.
Today we take a look at LiDar.
Special thanks for use of imagery and video footage to:
Ed Schipul: Flickr Account CC 3.0License
landskippy: Flickr Account CC 3.0 License
Fylkestinget i Nord-Trøndelag: Flickr account CC 3.0 License
Mike Ball: Ocean Pin Sculpture: CC 3.0 License
and Youtube account 'BK' - Thanks again!

Archaeology at work

Archaeology at WorkLooking for and Uncovering the Past
Archaeology at Work is a series of films that introduces the methods and the equipment used by archaeologists today. The first two parts deal with the discovery and excavation of sites. Looking for the Past examines archaeological methods for finding sites in the countryside without digging for them. It shows and explains such techniques as aerial photography, looking at documents, surveying earthworks, fieldwalking and geophysical techniques such as magnatometer and resistivity surveys. In the final section we see a team of archaeologists working on a fieldwork survey of a whole landscape. Uncovering the Past examines the work of archaeologists on two rescue excavations.
We see the whole sequence; removing the soil, uncovering featur...

published: 06 Nov 2013

New Maya Discoveries by Dr. Richard Hansen using LiDAR with the Mirador Basin

In 2016 the FARES Foundation and the Mirador BasinProject with help from National Geographic and some other private donors finished our LIDAR mapping of the majority of the Mirador Basin. To get the maximum image penetration we had to wait till the majority of leaves had fallen off of the trees. This isn't easy due to the 5 different forest zones in the basin. There is only one week out of the year where we have ideal conditions to fly the airplane for best results. The cost of this technology, which is done through a special outfitted aircraft is $350.00 per square kilometer, or approximately $380,000 for 1100 sq kilometers of the west, east, and south of El Mirador, Nakbe, and Tintal. We invite you to reach out and get involved by visiting our FARES Facebook page and making a donation....

This video is a presentation by Dr Michel Assenbaum, CEO of L'AvionJaune.
Michel presents an acquisition made using the YellowScan Mapper in the Ardennes forest in France, on an old battlefield of World War I. Under the vegetation, the LiDAR is able to unveil trenches, embankments, former roads or buildings, as well as explosion marks.
L'Avion Jaune is a french company that has provided operational aerial imagery services since 2005. The principal sectors that take advantage of their expertise in very high-resolution and multispectral products are agronomy, precision agriculture, environmental research and infrastructure management.
YellowScan develops tools for UAV Mapping. With our latest system, the Surveyor LiDAR Scanning system adapted for UAV surveying, you can gather in a few mi...

published: 07 Nov 2016

WOW! Underground Pyramid Discovered by Archaeologists In Bolivia

http://www.undergroundworldnews.com
The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) in western Bolivia is still revealing secrets thousands of years after its peak as capital of an empire, and home to one of the most important civilizations prior to the Inca. Archaeologists from the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center have discovered an underground pyramid at the site using ground-penetrating radar.
According to Fox News Latino, the Bolivian government has announced excavations are set to begin this summer on the new find at the Kantatallita area of Tiahuanaco, 71 kilometers (44 miles) west of La Paz.
Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers also have reportedly found “underground anomalies” which they suspect might be monoliths, but further analysis will be carried out before...

published: 01 Apr 2015

Lidar - Video Learning - WizScience.com

"Lidar" is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser and analyzing the reflected light. Although thought by some to be an acronym of Light Detection And Ranging, the term lidar was actually created as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar".
Lidar is popularly used as a technology to make high-resolution maps, with applications in geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, remote sensing, atmospheric physics,
airborne laser swath mapping , laser altimetry, and contour mapping.
Lidar originated in the early 1960s, shortly after the invention of the laser, and combined laser-focused imaging with radar's ability to calculate distances by measuring the time for a signal to return. Its first applications c...

published: 04 Sep 2015

How LIDAR Scans Reveal Angkor's Hidden City

LIDAR sends out a million laser points to create a digital outline of the land's surface. Scientists are using these high-tech renderings to uncover the secrets of Angkor Wat and the original metropolis that once surrounded it.
From: ANGKOR REVEALED: The HiddenMegacityhttp://bit.ly/1sh8hBd

published: 12 Dec 2014

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
FranciscoGoncalves
PT McElhanney Indonesia
Over the past almost 40 years, use of liDAR sensors and data has migrated from the domain of research and development into the general marketplace primarily as a means of rapidly generating dense, accurate, digital models of the topography and vertical structure. LiDAR elevation data is ideally suited for mapping extensive areas where very high accuracy elevation and information data is required rapidly and where vegetation density is a factor.
Market sectors such as infrastructure, land management and development, natural resource management companies, environmental, energy, agribusiness, urban development, coastal zone management, water resource management, archaeology and conservation insti...

published: 02 Nov 2016

A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape

This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a 'solid' computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method.
Prehistoric burial mounds (barrows), the great Cursus (a 2km Neolithic monument), the Bronze AgeAvenue which links Stonehenge to the River Avon, and other henges such as Woodhenge and Durrington Walls are all clearly visible.
It is possibly the first time that this data has been shown in this way, at 1:1 with no reduction of data quality to produce a perspective animation.
To find out more technical information about the survey, visit the Stonehenge LIDAR section of the English Heritage website: htt...

published: 15 Nov 2007

Scientists Are Using Lasers To Uncover Lost Cities

Uncovering lost, ancient cities can take quite some time, but now scientists are speeding up the process using lasers! JoinJulian as he discusses a new method to dig up the past.
Follow Julian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jhug00
Read More:
Scientists Use Lasers To DiscoverAncientLost Cityhttp://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-lasers-are-helping-us-unlock-secrets-ancient-civilizations
"Vegetation is probably the world's best secret keeper. It's kept some of the world's most famous archeological sites hidden from our eyes for centuries."
Lidar archaeology shines a light on hidden sites
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120827-the-laser-archaeologists
"For the best part of 25 years, archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase slogged through the thick undergrowth in the west...

published: 01 Oct 2014

Drones used for Archaeology Mapping

GIS Manager and Archaeologist, William Hayden, describes the proper usage of drones in archaeology.

published: 09 Dec 2015

Robin Woywitka - LiDAR use at the Archaeological Survey

Robin Woywitka delivered a presentation on how LiDAR data is being used to help the work of the Archaeological Survey in Alberta. The province has over 30,000 sites covering the past 12,000 years, and a regulatory framework in place to protect sensitive areas. Using LiDAR data as part of the Historic Resources Impact Assessment process has been successful. LiDAR is used for terrian visualization, some direct site detection adn modelling areas of archaeological sensitivity. Staff at the Archaeological Survey are working on digital terrain analysis as a means of identifying potential sites.
Robin Woywitka works with the Archaeological Survey, Historic Resources ManagementBranch, Alberta Culture and Community Services.

published: 09 Jul 2012

Interactive approaches to landscape modelling using Lidar data

Steve Malone, Project Manager, Trent & Peak Archaeology
The use of LiDAR derived DigitalElevationModels is becoming commonplace in the study of ancient landscapes. These DEMs offer the opportunity to study landscape, archaeology and topography at a high resolution which no other survey data source can deliver over such wide areas. However, in common with other 3D datasets they present a paradox, in that the dimensionality that makes them so powerful has to be discarded in the production and dissemination of 2D (or 2½D) derived products and final figures. The utility of such output depends in large degree on the skills of the processor/illustrator (and toolkits for the production of such imagery will be discussed), but increasing availability of 3D functionality within such as the PDF fo...

published: 19 Jun 2015

Archaeology of Ashdown Forest

This film describes how LiDar has been used to discover more about the history and archaeology of Ashdown Forest in East Sussex.

published: 04 Apr 2012

Archaeology from the Sky - Chris Fisher and Steve Leisz

Meet theCSU explorers who are using aircraft packed with laser technology to reveal lost cities and the forgotten past. Drawing on examples of their work from Mexico and Honduras CSU researchers ChristopherFisher and Stephen Leisz who are discussing how new applications of remote sensing, such as LiDAR technology, are revolutionizing the field of archaeology.
Partnering with local companies, non-profit organizations, and international agencies these CSU scientists are developing innovative ways to record cultural and natural heritage in areas long left unexplored due to the dense forests and complicated terrain of the areas where the sites are located; conditions which have long hindered on the ground exploration.
Their presentation illustrates what the technologies are, how they are...

published: 23 Sep 2013

LIDAR and archaeology: The importance of ground point classification

Gudrun Norstedt gives some preliminary results from her study. The audio will be better after about 8 minutes.

Hidden History - Lidar 3D Mapping

Archaeologists have discovered more than 3,000 historical sites and monuments in the New Forest thanks to Lidar (Light Detecting and Ranging). The technique bea...

Archaeologists have discovered more than 3,000 historical sites and monuments in the New Forest thanks to Lidar (Light Detecting and Ranging). The technique beams harmless lasers into the ground to build a 3D map, revealing the hidden history of the New Forest including a Roman road and prehistoric pits and mounds.
The discoveries have been made thanks to the Verderers of the New Forest Higher Level Stewardship Scheme. The 10 year project is a partnership between the Verderers, the Forestry Commission and the New Forest National Park Authority, to protect and enhance internationally-important landscapes in the Forest.
Find out more at www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/heritagemapping

Archaeologists have discovered more than 3,000 historical sites and monuments in the New Forest thanks to Lidar (Light Detecting and Ranging). The technique beams harmless lasers into the ground to build a 3D map, revealing the hidden history of the New Forest including a Roman road and prehistoric pits and mounds.
The discoveries have been made thanks to the Verderers of the New Forest Higher Level Stewardship Scheme. The 10 year project is a partnership between the Verderers, the Forestry Commission and the New Forest National Park Authority, to protect and enhance internationally-important landscapes in the Forest.
Find out more at www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/heritagemapping

Welcome to Aspects of Archaeology. In this series we take a closer look at different aspects of the world of archaeology.
Today we take a look at LiDar.
Special thanks for use of imagery and video footage to:
Ed Schipul: Flickr Account CC 3.0License
landskippy: Flickr Account CC 3.0 License
Fylkestinget i Nord-Trøndelag: Flickr account CC 3.0 License
Mike Ball: Ocean Pin Sculpture: CC 3.0 License
and Youtube account 'BK' - Thanks again!

Welcome to Aspects of Archaeology. In this series we take a closer look at different aspects of the world of archaeology.
Today we take a look at LiDar.
Special thanks for use of imagery and video footage to:
Ed Schipul: Flickr Account CC 3.0License
landskippy: Flickr Account CC 3.0 License
Fylkestinget i Nord-Trøndelag: Flickr account CC 3.0 License
Mike Ball: Ocean Pin Sculpture: CC 3.0 License
and Youtube account 'BK' - Thanks again!

Archaeology at work

Archaeology at WorkLooking for and Uncovering the Past
Archaeology at Work is a series of films that introduces the methods and the equipment used by archaeolo...

Archaeology at WorkLooking for and Uncovering the Past
Archaeology at Work is a series of films that introduces the methods and the equipment used by archaeologists today. The first two parts deal with the discovery and excavation of sites. Looking for the Past examines archaeological methods for finding sites in the countryside without digging for them. It shows and explains such techniques as aerial photography, looking at documents, surveying earthworks, fieldwalking and geophysical techniques such as magnatometer and resistivity surveys. In the final section we see a team of archaeologists working on a fieldwork survey of a whole landscape. Uncovering the Past examines the work of archaeologists on two rescue excavations.
We see the whole sequence; removing the soil, uncovering features, recording them, dealing with the finds and drawing the evidence together to make interpretations.
The first section looks at the excavations of an AngloSaxon village in North Yorkshire. We see how the archaeologists piece together the evidence of how the community lived and worked in that place 1500 years ago. In the second half we look at a rescue excavation in the city of Worcester. We see the complications of excavating a site that has been continuously occupied for over two thousand years. We see that archaeology is all about finding people.

Archaeology at WorkLooking for and Uncovering the Past
Archaeology at Work is a series of films that introduces the methods and the equipment used by archaeologists today. The first two parts deal with the discovery and excavation of sites. Looking for the Past examines archaeological methods for finding sites in the countryside without digging for them. It shows and explains such techniques as aerial photography, looking at documents, surveying earthworks, fieldwalking and geophysical techniques such as magnatometer and resistivity surveys. In the final section we see a team of archaeologists working on a fieldwork survey of a whole landscape. Uncovering the Past examines the work of archaeologists on two rescue excavations.
We see the whole sequence; removing the soil, uncovering features, recording them, dealing with the finds and drawing the evidence together to make interpretations.
The first section looks at the excavations of an AngloSaxon village in North Yorkshire. We see how the archaeologists piece together the evidence of how the community lived and worked in that place 1500 years ago. In the second half we look at a rescue excavation in the city of Worcester. We see the complications of excavating a site that has been continuously occupied for over two thousand years. We see that archaeology is all about finding people.

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New Maya Discoveries by Dr. Richard Hansen using LiDAR with the Mirador Basin

In 2016 the FARES Foundation and the Mirador BasinProject with help from National Geographic and some other private donors finished our LIDAR mapping of the majority of the Mirador Basin. To get the maximum image penetration we had to wait till the majority of leaves had fallen off of the trees. This isn't easy due to the 5 different forest zones in the basin. There is only one week out of the year where we have ideal conditions to fly the airplane for best results. The cost of this technology, which is done through a special outfitted aircraft is $350.00 per square kilometer, or approximately $380,000 for 1100 sq kilometers of the west, east, and south of El Mirador, Nakbe, and Tintal. We invite you to reach out and get involved by visiting our FARES Facebook page and making a donation. We also encourage you to visit and see for yourself these amazing discoveries.

In 2016 the FARES Foundation and the Mirador BasinProject with help from National Geographic and some other private donors finished our LIDAR mapping of the majority of the Mirador Basin. To get the maximum image penetration we had to wait till the majority of leaves had fallen off of the trees. This isn't easy due to the 5 different forest zones in the basin. There is only one week out of the year where we have ideal conditions to fly the airplane for best results. The cost of this technology, which is done through a special outfitted aircraft is $350.00 per square kilometer, or approximately $380,000 for 1100 sq kilometers of the west, east, and south of El Mirador, Nakbe, and Tintal. We invite you to reach out and get involved by visiting our FARES Facebook page and making a donation. We also encourage you to visit and see for yourself these amazing discoveries.

This video is a presentation by Dr Michel Assenbaum, CEO of L'AvionJaune.
Michel presents an acquisition made using the YellowScan Mapper in the Ardennes fore...

This video is a presentation by Dr Michel Assenbaum, CEO of L'AvionJaune.
Michel presents an acquisition made using the YellowScan Mapper in the Ardennes forest in France, on an old battlefield of World War I. Under the vegetation, the LiDAR is able to unveil trenches, embankments, former roads or buildings, as well as explosion marks.
L'Avion Jaune is a french company that has provided operational aerial imagery services since 2005. The principal sectors that take advantage of their expertise in very high-resolution and multispectral products are agronomy, precision agriculture, environmental research and infrastructure management.
YellowScan develops tools for UAV Mapping. With our latest system, the Surveyor LiDAR Scanning system adapted for UAV surveying, you can gather in a few minutes a precise 3D image of your forest and its topography to make out hidden vestiges.

This video is a presentation by Dr Michel Assenbaum, CEO of L'AvionJaune.
Michel presents an acquisition made using the YellowScan Mapper in the Ardennes forest in France, on an old battlefield of World War I. Under the vegetation, the LiDAR is able to unveil trenches, embankments, former roads or buildings, as well as explosion marks.
L'Avion Jaune is a french company that has provided operational aerial imagery services since 2005. The principal sectors that take advantage of their expertise in very high-resolution and multispectral products are agronomy, precision agriculture, environmental research and infrastructure management.
YellowScan develops tools for UAV Mapping. With our latest system, the Surveyor LiDAR Scanning system adapted for UAV surveying, you can gather in a few minutes a precise 3D image of your forest and its topography to make out hidden vestiges.

WOW! Underground Pyramid Discovered by Archaeologists In Bolivia

http://www.undergroundworldnews.com
The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) in western Bolivia is still revealing secrets thousands of years after ...

http://www.undergroundworldnews.com
The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) in western Bolivia is still revealing secrets thousands of years after its peak as capital of an empire, and home to one of the most important civilizations prior to the Inca. Archaeologists from the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center have discovered an underground pyramid at the site using ground-penetrating radar.
According to Fox News Latino, the Bolivian government has announced excavations are set to begin this summer on the new find at the Kantatallita area of Tiahuanaco, 71 kilometers (44 miles) west of La Paz.
Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers also have reportedly found “underground anomalies” which they suspect might be monoliths, but further analysis will be carried out before reaching official conclusions.
Read more: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/archaeologists-find-underground-pyramid-tiahuanaco-bolivia-020278#ixzz3W1FoG31F

http://www.undergroundworldnews.com
The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) in western Bolivia is still revealing secrets thousands of years after its peak as capital of an empire, and home to one of the most important civilizations prior to the Inca. Archaeologists from the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center have discovered an underground pyramid at the site using ground-penetrating radar.
According to Fox News Latino, the Bolivian government has announced excavations are set to begin this summer on the new find at the Kantatallita area of Tiahuanaco, 71 kilometers (44 miles) west of La Paz.
Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers also have reportedly found “underground anomalies” which they suspect might be monoliths, but further analysis will be carried out before reaching official conclusions.
Read more: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/archaeologists-find-underground-pyramid-tiahuanaco-bolivia-020278#ixzz3W1FoG31F

Lidar - Video Learning - WizScience.com

"Lidar" is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser and analyzing the reflected light. Although thought by so...

"Lidar" is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser and analyzing the reflected light. Although thought by some to be an acronym of Light Detection And Ranging, the term lidar was actually created as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar".
Lidar is popularly used as a technology to make high-resolution maps, with applications in geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, remote sensing, atmospheric physics,
airborne laser swath mapping , laser altimetry, and contour mapping.
Lidar originated in the early 1960s, shortly after the invention of the laser, and combined laser-focused imaging with radar's ability to calculate distances by measuring the time for a signal to return. Its first applications came in meteorology, where the National Center for Atmospheric Research used it to measure clouds. The general public became aware of the accuracy and usefulness of lidar systems in 1971 during the Apollo 15 mission, when astronauts used a laser altimeter to map the surface of the moon.
Although some sources treat the word "lidar" as an acronym, the term originated as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar". The first published mention of lidar, in 1963, makes this clear: "Eventually the laser may provide an extremely sensitive detector of particular wavelengths from distant objects. Meanwhile, it is being used to study the moon by 'lidar' ..." The "Oxford English Dictionary" supports this etymology.
Wiz Science™ is "the" learning channel for children and all ages.
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"The PlaceInside" by Silent Partner (royalty-free) from YouTube AudioLibrary.
This video uses material/images from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar, which is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . This video is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . To reuse/adapt the content in your own work, you must comply with the license terms.

"Lidar" is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser and analyzing the reflected light. Although thought by some to be an acronym of Light Detection And Ranging, the term lidar was actually created as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar".
Lidar is popularly used as a technology to make high-resolution maps, with applications in geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, remote sensing, atmospheric physics,
airborne laser swath mapping , laser altimetry, and contour mapping.
Lidar originated in the early 1960s, shortly after the invention of the laser, and combined laser-focused imaging with radar's ability to calculate distances by measuring the time for a signal to return. Its first applications came in meteorology, where the National Center for Atmospheric Research used it to measure clouds. The general public became aware of the accuracy and usefulness of lidar systems in 1971 during the Apollo 15 mission, when astronauts used a laser altimeter to map the surface of the moon.
Although some sources treat the word "lidar" as an acronym, the term originated as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar". The first published mention of lidar, in 1963, makes this clear: "Eventually the laser may provide an extremely sensitive detector of particular wavelengths from distant objects. Meanwhile, it is being used to study the moon by 'lidar' ..." The "Oxford English Dictionary" supports this etymology.
Wiz Science™ is "the" learning channel for children and all ages.
SUBSCRIBE TODAYDisclaimer: This video is for your information only. The author or publisher does not guarantee the accuracy of the content presented in this video. USE AT YOUR OWNRISK.
Background Music:
"The PlaceInside" by Silent Partner (royalty-free) from YouTube AudioLibrary.
This video uses material/images from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar, which is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . This video is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . To reuse/adapt the content in your own work, you must comply with the license terms.

How LIDAR Scans Reveal Angkor's Hidden City

LIDAR sends out a million laser points to create a digital outline of the land's surface. Scientists are using these high-tech renderings to uncover the secrets...

LIDAR sends out a million laser points to create a digital outline of the land's surface. Scientists are using these high-tech renderings to uncover the secrets of Angkor Wat and the original metropolis that once surrounded it.
From: ANGKOR REVEALED: The HiddenMegacityhttp://bit.ly/1sh8hBd

LIDAR sends out a million laser points to create a digital outline of the land's surface. Scientists are using these high-tech renderings to uncover the secrets of Angkor Wat and the original metropolis that once surrounded it.
From: ANGKOR REVEALED: The HiddenMegacityhttp://bit.ly/1sh8hBd

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
FranciscoGoncalves
PT McElhanney Indonesia
Over the past almost 40 years, use of liDAR sensors and data has migrated from the domain of research and development into the general marketplace primarily as a means of rapidly generating dense, accurate, digital models of the topography and vertical structure. LiDAR elevation data is ideally suited for mapping extensive areas where very high accuracy elevation and information data is required rapidly and where vegetation density is a factor.
Market sectors such as infrastructure, land management and development, natural resource management companies, environmental, energy, agribusiness, urban development, coastal zone management, water resource management, archaeology and conservation institutions embraced liDAR as the most costs cost effective and accurate technology offering the data and information required for the effective management of their project areas. The purpose of my presentation is to show you how we at PTMI, make this technology work and fulfill your requirements.

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
FranciscoGoncalves
PT McElhanney Indonesia
Over the past almost 40 years, use of liDAR sensors and data has migrated from the domain of research and development into the general marketplace primarily as a means of rapidly generating dense, accurate, digital models of the topography and vertical structure. LiDAR elevation data is ideally suited for mapping extensive areas where very high accuracy elevation and information data is required rapidly and where vegetation density is a factor.
Market sectors such as infrastructure, land management and development, natural resource management companies, environmental, energy, agribusiness, urban development, coastal zone management, water resource management, archaeology and conservation institutions embraced liDAR as the most costs cost effective and accurate technology offering the data and information required for the effective management of their project areas. The purpose of my presentation is to show you how we at PTMI, make this technology work and fulfill your requirements.

This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a 'solid' computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method.
Prehistoric burial mounds (barrows), the great Cursus (a 2km Neolithic monument), the Bronze AgeAvenue which links Stonehenge to the River Avon, and other henges such as Woodhenge and Durrington Walls are all clearly visible.
It is possibly the first time that this data has been shown in this way, at 1:1 with no reduction of data quality to produce a perspective animation.
To find out more technical information about the survey, visit the Stonehenge LIDAR section of the English Heritage website: http://english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.00100200300400a001001

This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a 'solid' computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method.
Prehistoric burial mounds (barrows), the great Cursus (a 2km Neolithic monument), the Bronze AgeAvenue which links Stonehenge to the River Avon, and other henges such as Woodhenge and Durrington Walls are all clearly visible.
It is possibly the first time that this data has been shown in this way, at 1:1 with no reduction of data quality to produce a perspective animation.
To find out more technical information about the survey, visit the Stonehenge LIDAR section of the English Heritage website: http://english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.00100200300400a001001

Scientists Are Using Lasers To Uncover Lost Cities

Uncovering lost, ancient cities can take quite some time, but now scientists are speeding up the process using lasers! JoinJulian as he discusses a new method ...

Uncovering lost, ancient cities can take quite some time, but now scientists are speeding up the process using lasers! JoinJulian as he discusses a new method to dig up the past.
Follow Julian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jhug00
Read More:
Scientists Use Lasers To DiscoverAncientLost Cityhttp://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-lasers-are-helping-us-unlock-secrets-ancient-civilizations
"Vegetation is probably the world's best secret keeper. It's kept some of the world's most famous archeological sites hidden from our eyes for centuries."
Lidar archaeology shines a light on hidden sites
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120827-the-laser-archaeologists
"For the best part of 25 years, archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase slogged through the thick undergrowth in the west of Belize in search of an ancient city whose details had been lost to the passage of time and the decay of the jungle."
Angkor Wat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat#Angkor_Wat_today
King Tut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun#SignificanceWatch More:
What Did Ancient WineTaste Like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7cukSVCC-w
Catching Drunk Drivers With Lasers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU72TwiczA0
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Uncovering lost, ancient cities can take quite some time, but now scientists are speeding up the process using lasers! JoinJulian as he discusses a new method to dig up the past.
Follow Julian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jhug00
Read More:
Scientists Use Lasers To DiscoverAncientLost Cityhttp://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-lasers-are-helping-us-unlock-secrets-ancient-civilizations
"Vegetation is probably the world's best secret keeper. It's kept some of the world's most famous archeological sites hidden from our eyes for centuries."
Lidar archaeology shines a light on hidden sites
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120827-the-laser-archaeologists
"For the best part of 25 years, archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase slogged through the thick undergrowth in the west of Belize in search of an ancient city whose details had been lost to the passage of time and the decay of the jungle."
Angkor Wat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat#Angkor_Wat_today
King Tut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun#SignificanceWatch More:
What Did Ancient WineTaste Like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7cukSVCC-w
Catching Drunk Drivers With Lasers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU72TwiczA0
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Robin Woywitka - LiDAR use at the Archaeological Survey

Robin Woywitka delivered a presentation on how LiDAR data is being used to help the work of the Archaeological Survey in Alberta. The province has over 30,000 s...

Robin Woywitka delivered a presentation on how LiDAR data is being used to help the work of the Archaeological Survey in Alberta. The province has over 30,000 sites covering the past 12,000 years, and a regulatory framework in place to protect sensitive areas. Using LiDAR data as part of the Historic Resources Impact Assessment process has been successful. LiDAR is used for terrian visualization, some direct site detection adn modelling areas of archaeological sensitivity. Staff at the Archaeological Survey are working on digital terrain analysis as a means of identifying potential sites.
Robin Woywitka works with the Archaeological Survey, Historic Resources ManagementBranch, Alberta Culture and Community Services.

Robin Woywitka delivered a presentation on how LiDAR data is being used to help the work of the Archaeological Survey in Alberta. The province has over 30,000 sites covering the past 12,000 years, and a regulatory framework in place to protect sensitive areas. Using LiDAR data as part of the Historic Resources Impact Assessment process has been successful. LiDAR is used for terrian visualization, some direct site detection adn modelling areas of archaeological sensitivity. Staff at the Archaeological Survey are working on digital terrain analysis as a means of identifying potential sites.
Robin Woywitka works with the Archaeological Survey, Historic Resources ManagementBranch, Alberta Culture and Community Services.

Steve Malone, Project Manager, Trent & Peak Archaeology
The use of LiDAR derived DigitalElevationModels is becoming commonplace in the study of ancient landscapes. These DEMs offer the opportunity to study landscape, archaeology and topography at a high resolution which no other survey data source can deliver over such wide areas. However, in common with other 3D datasets they present a paradox, in that the dimensionality that makes them so powerful has to be discarded in the production and dissemination of 2D (or 2½D) derived products and final figures. The utility of such output depends in large degree on the skills of the processor/illustrator (and toolkits for the production of such imagery will be discussed), but increasing availability of 3D functionality within such as the PDF format and the development of interactive WebGL approaches are allowing the potential of these datasets to be realised in greater degree. This paper will study some methods of presentation/visualisation of surface models and explore the potential for interactive modelling.

Steve Malone, Project Manager, Trent & Peak Archaeology
The use of LiDAR derived DigitalElevationModels is becoming commonplace in the study of ancient landscapes. These DEMs offer the opportunity to study landscape, archaeology and topography at a high resolution which no other survey data source can deliver over such wide areas. However, in common with other 3D datasets they present a paradox, in that the dimensionality that makes them so powerful has to be discarded in the production and dissemination of 2D (or 2½D) derived products and final figures. The utility of such output depends in large degree on the skills of the processor/illustrator (and toolkits for the production of such imagery will be discussed), but increasing availability of 3D functionality within such as the PDF format and the development of interactive WebGL approaches are allowing the potential of these datasets to be realised in greater degree. This paper will study some methods of presentation/visualisation of surface models and explore the potential for interactive modelling.

Archaeology from the Sky - Chris Fisher and Steve Leisz

Meet theCSU explorers who are using aircraft packed with laser technology to reveal lost cities and the forgotten past. Drawing on examples of their work from ...

Meet theCSU explorers who are using aircraft packed with laser technology to reveal lost cities and the forgotten past. Drawing on examples of their work from Mexico and Honduras CSU researchers ChristopherFisher and Stephen Leisz who are discussing how new applications of remote sensing, such as LiDAR technology, are revolutionizing the field of archaeology.
Partnering with local companies, non-profit organizations, and international agencies these CSU scientists are developing innovative ways to record cultural and natural heritage in areas long left unexplored due to the dense forests and complicated terrain of the areas where the sites are located; conditions which have long hindered on the ground exploration.
Their presentation illustrates what the technologies are, how they are used, what has recently been learned from the application of these technologies, and the technologies' future potential, as well as discusses controversies regarding the funding of such exploration.

Meet theCSU explorers who are using aircraft packed with laser technology to reveal lost cities and the forgotten past. Drawing on examples of their work from Mexico and Honduras CSU researchers ChristopherFisher and Stephen Leisz who are discussing how new applications of remote sensing, such as LiDAR technology, are revolutionizing the field of archaeology.
Partnering with local companies, non-profit organizations, and international agencies these CSU scientists are developing innovative ways to record cultural and natural heritage in areas long left unexplored due to the dense forests and complicated terrain of the areas where the sites are located; conditions which have long hindered on the ground exploration.
Their presentation illustrates what the technologies are, how they are used, what has recently been learned from the application of these technologies, and the technologies' future potential, as well as discusses controversies regarding the funding of such exploration.

Hidden History - Lidar 3D Mapping

Archaeologists have discovered more than 3,000 historical sites and monuments in the New Forest thanks to Lidar (Light Detecting and Ranging). The technique beams harmless lasers into the ground to build a 3D map, revealing the hidden history of the New Forest including a Roman road and prehistoric pits and mounds.
The discoveries have been made thanks to the Verderers of the New Forest Higher Level Stewardship Scheme. The 10 year project is a partnership between the Verderers, the Forestry Commission and the New Forest National Park Authority, to protect and enhance internationally-important landscapes in the Forest.
Find out more at www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/heritagemapping

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Aspects of Archaeology: LiDar

Welcome to Aspects of Archaeology. In this series we take a closer look at different aspec...

Aspects of Archaeology: LiDar

Welcome to Aspects of Archaeology. In this series we take a closer look at different aspects of the world of archaeology.
Today we take a look at LiDar.
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How LiDAR was used to to uncover archaeology in South Downs

How has LiDAR technology been used to uncover secret archaeology hidden beneath woodlands ...

Archaeology at work

Archaeology at WorkLooking for and Uncovering the Past
Archaeology at Work is a series of films that introduces the methods and the equipment used by archaeologists today. The first two parts deal with the discovery and excavation of sites. Looking for the Past examines archaeological methods for finding sites in the countryside without digging for them. It shows and explains such techniques as aerial photography, looking at documents, surveying earthworks, fieldwalking and geophysical techniques such as magnatometer and resistivity surveys. In the final section we see a team of archaeologists working on a fieldwork survey of a whole landscape. Uncovering the Past examines the work of archaeologists on two rescue excavations.
We see the whole sequence; removing the soil, uncovering features, recording them, dealing with the finds and drawing the evidence together to make interpretations.
The first section looks at the excavations of an AngloSaxon village in North Yorkshire. We see how the archaeologists piece together the evidence of how the community lived and worked in that place 1500 years ago. In the second half we look at a rescue excavation in the city of Worcester. We see the complications of excavating a site that has been continuously occupied for over two thousand years. We see that archaeology is all about finding people.

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New Maya Discoveries by Dr. Richard Hansen using LiDAR with the Mirador Basin

In 2016 the FARES Foundation and the Mirador Basin Project with help from National Geograp...

New Maya Discoveries by Dr. Richard Hansen using LiDAR with the Mirador Basin

In 2016 the FARES Foundation and the Mirador BasinProject with help from National Geographic and some other private donors finished our LIDAR mapping of the majority of the Mirador Basin. To get the maximum image penetration we had to wait till the majority of leaves had fallen off of the trees. This isn't easy due to the 5 different forest zones in the basin. There is only one week out of the year where we have ideal conditions to fly the airplane for best results. The cost of this technology, which is done through a special outfitted aircraft is $350.00 per square kilometer, or approximately $380,000 for 1100 sq kilometers of the west, east, and south of El Mirador, Nakbe, and Tintal. We invite you to reach out and get involved by visiting our FARES Facebook page and making a donation. We also encourage you to visit and see for yourself these amazing discoveries.

This video is a presentation by Dr Michel Assenbaum, CEO of L'AvionJaune.
Michel presents an acquisition made using the YellowScan Mapper in the Ardennes forest in France, on an old battlefield of World War I. Under the vegetation, the LiDAR is able to unveil trenches, embankments, former roads or buildings, as well as explosion marks.
L'Avion Jaune is a french company that has provided operational aerial imagery services since 2005. The principal sectors that take advantage of their expertise in very high-resolution and multispectral products are agronomy, precision agriculture, environmental research and infrastructure management.
YellowScan develops tools for UAV Mapping. With our latest system, the Surveyor LiDAR Scanning system adapted for UAV surveying, you can gather in a few minutes a precise 3D image of your forest and its topography to make out hidden vestiges.

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WOW! Underground Pyramid Discovered by Archaeologists In Bolivia

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The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) i...

WOW! Underground Pyramid Discovered by Archaeologists In Bolivia

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The ancient fortress site of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) in western Bolivia is still revealing secrets thousands of years after its peak as capital of an empire, and home to one of the most important civilizations prior to the Inca. Archaeologists from the Tiahuanaco Archeological Research Center have discovered an underground pyramid at the site using ground-penetrating radar.
According to Fox News Latino, the Bolivian government has announced excavations are set to begin this summer on the new find at the Kantatallita area of Tiahuanaco, 71 kilometers (44 miles) west of La Paz.
Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers also have reportedly found “underground anomalies” which they suspect might be monoliths, but further analysis will be carried out before reaching official conclusions.
Read more: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/archaeologists-find-underground-pyramid-tiahuanaco-bolivia-020278#ixzz3W1FoG31F

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Lidar - Video Learning - WizScience.com

"Lidar" is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating a target w...

Lidar - Video Learning - WizScience.com

"Lidar" is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser and analyzing the reflected light. Although thought by some to be an acronym of Light Detection And Ranging, the term lidar was actually created as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar".
Lidar is popularly used as a technology to make high-resolution maps, with applications in geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, remote sensing, atmospheric physics,
airborne laser swath mapping , laser altimetry, and contour mapping.
Lidar originated in the early 1960s, shortly after the invention of the laser, and combined laser-focused imaging with radar's ability to calculate distances by measuring the time for a signal to return. Its first applications came in meteorology, where the National Center for Atmospheric Research used it to measure clouds. The general public became aware of the accuracy and usefulness of lidar systems in 1971 during the Apollo 15 mission, when astronauts used a laser altimeter to map the surface of the moon.
Although some sources treat the word "lidar" as an acronym, the term originated as a portmanteau of "light" and "radar". The first published mention of lidar, in 1963, makes this clear: "Eventually the laser may provide an extremely sensitive detector of particular wavelengths from distant objects. Meanwhile, it is being used to study the moon by 'lidar' ..." The "Oxford English Dictionary" supports this etymology.
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How LIDAR Scans Reveal Angkor's Hidden City

LIDAR sends out a million laser points to create a digital outline of the land's surface. ...

How LIDAR Scans Reveal Angkor's Hidden City

LIDAR sends out a million laser points to create a digital outline of the land's surface. Scientists are using these high-tech renderings to uncover the secrets of Angkor Wat and the original metropolis that once surrounded it.
From: ANGKOR REVEALED: The HiddenMegacityhttp://bit.ly/1sh8hBd

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)

Archaeology and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
FranciscoGoncalves
PT McElhanney Indonesia
Over the past almost 40 years, use of liDAR sensors and data has migrated from the domain of research and development into the general marketplace primarily as a means of rapidly generating dense, accurate, digital models of the topography and vertical structure. LiDAR elevation data is ideally suited for mapping extensive areas where very high accuracy elevation and information data is required rapidly and where vegetation density is a factor.
Market sectors such as infrastructure, land management and development, natural resource management companies, environmental, energy, agribusiness, urban development, coastal zone management, water resource management, archaeology and conservation institutions embraced liDAR as the most costs cost effective and accurate technology offering the data and information required for the effective management of their project areas. The purpose of my presentation is to show you how we at PTMI, make this technology work and fulfill your requirements.

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A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape

This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborn...

A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape

This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a 'solid' computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method.
Prehistoric burial mounds (barrows), the great Cursus (a 2km Neolithic monument), the Bronze AgeAvenue which links Stonehenge to the River Avon, and other henges such as Woodhenge and Durrington Walls are all clearly visible.
It is possibly the first time that this data has been shown in this way, at 1:1 with no reduction of data quality to produce a perspective animation.
To find out more technical information about the survey, visit the Stonehenge LIDAR section of the English Heritage website: http://english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.00100200300400a001001

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Scientists Are Using Lasers To Uncover Lost Cities

Uncovering lost, ancient cities can take quite some time, but now scientists are speeding ...

Scientists Are Using Lasers To Uncover Lost Cities

Uncovering lost, ancient cities can take quite some time, but now scientists are speeding up the process using lasers! JoinJulian as he discusses a new method to dig up the past.
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Read More:
Scientists Use Lasers To DiscoverAncientLost Cityhttp://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-lasers-are-helping-us-unlock-secrets-ancient-civilizations
"Vegetation is probably the world's best secret keeper. It's kept some of the world's most famous archeological sites hidden from our eyes for centuries."
Lidar archaeology shines a light on hidden sites
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120827-the-laser-archaeologists
"For the best part of 25 years, archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase slogged through the thick undergrowth in the west of Belize in search of an ancient city whose details had been lost to the passage of time and the decay of the jungle."
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz... 8 ... It autonomously patrols a set area using a combination of Lidar and other sensors, and can alert security services of potentially criminal activity ... Read more of this story at Slashdot. ....

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec 13, 2017 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- VelodyneLiDARInc., the world leader in 3D vision systems for autonomous vehicles, and Paracosm, a division of Occipital, today announced that the two companies have partnered to integrate Velodyne’s VLP-16 PuckLiDAR sensors into Paracosm’s PX-80 ... As the VLP-16 is the smallest commercially available sensor in Velodyne’s LiDAR portfolio, it is the easiest to embed in other products....

It has four LiDARs (light radars) that sit above each wheel, and above this are Velodyne pucks which are sensing everything around the vehicle," said Joseph Holmes, with Denver-based Easymile ... "And sitting on top of the vehicle you've got the GPS and another LiDAR system, and all of those systems work together in a hybrid form to actually continuously sense its environment all the way around itself and go on a pre-programmed route." ... ....

12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovusion, a privately held company based in Silicon Valley, emerged today out of stealth mode and is introducing its ground-breaking LiDAR technology with the following industry leading features and functionality.. The unique combination of capabilities makes the Innovusion image grade LiDARs an ideal choice for the level 4 and 5 autonomous vehicle and ADAS markets....

End-to-End Learning for Point Cloud-Based 3D Object Detection, Zhou and Tuzel write that they have developed a software program called VoxelNet which greatly improves a car's ability to detect far-off small objects, such as pedestrians and cyclists, using only LiDAR data ... For instance, due to its low resolution, especially in fog or rain, LiDAR can have trouble detecting smaller objects at a distance....

AImotive, a Hungarian startup, is developing self-driving car technology that relies on cameras, instead of Lidar laser sensors, to detect cars, obstacles, and signs. Its approach differs sharply from Waymo, Uber, and General Motors, all of which are focusing on cars that use more expensive Lidar technology ... But AImotive CEO argues that self-driving cars don't need Lidar ... "They don't need Lidar."...

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 12, 2017. A spaceborne lidar instrument that fired more laser pulses than any previous orbiting instrument has ended its operations on the International Space Station, after a successful 33-month mission to measure clouds and tiny atmospheric particles that play key roles in Earth's climate and weather. During its mission, NASA's Cloud-Aerosol TransportSystem (CATS) lidar provided measurements of t ... ....

AImotive is developing self-driving car technology that relies on inexpensive cameras, rather than a pricey Lidar system ... AImotive is developing autonomous vehicle software that relies on cameras rather than laser-based Lidar arrays to detect vehicles, pedestrians, and other obstacles ... Unlike Lidar or radar systems, regular cameras have similar limitations to human eyes in such situations — they just can't see very far....

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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Dec ... While capable of autonomous operation, the vehicle will be driven by an FEV representative who will explain and demonstrate the integrated technologies ... Extensive use of sensors and interfaces, including radar, GPS, differential GPS, multiple cameras, and LIDAR, allow the vehicle to travel safely without a driver on a designated roadway, reacting to its environment due to the fusion of sensor information....

STOCKHOLM, Dec ... Over the last two years Electronics has further positioned itself to be a major player in automotive electronics, including the competitiveness of the product portfolio, becoming a qualified supplier with a high number of OEM's for active safety and entering into important partnerships with companies like Volvo Cars (Zenuity), NVIDIA and LiDAR experts Velodyne for the next generation of highly automated cars ... PDF....